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Dead batteries result in false alarm in Ogden school

Mike McFall Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, February 17, 2012 - 12:05am

OGDEN — A problem with batteries caused a false alarm at Mount Ogden Middle School on Thursday afternoon.

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Woman jailed for false report of triple shooting

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 10:36am

ST. GEORGE, Utah — A woman has been booked into the Washington County jail after police say she made a false report about a triple shooting in a southern Utah backyard shed.

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Phone phreakers dispatch Swat teams falsely to houses

Robbyn Mitchell St. Petersburg Times

Last updated Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 11:52am

BRANDON, Fla. -- Debora Marshall wasn't sure what she was witnessing. She came home from work to find sheriff's cruisers blocking streets in her sleepy Florida subdivision. Deputies with guns drawn and bulletproof vests surrounded her house.

"They had it blocked off at both ends. I thought a murderer was on the loose," she said.

So did the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.

Authorities thought her son had killed her.

"My son was home and clueless," Marshall said. "I was at work, and all my neighbors thought I was dead."

In what appears to be the first incident of its kind in Hillsborough County, someone falsely and anonymously reported a murder and hostage situation that easily could have drawn a special weapons and tactics team and deadly consequences.

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False alarm led to Ohio NASA lockdown

Meghan Barr, The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, November 5, 2010 - 11:27am

CLEVELAND -- A lockdown and reports of a gunman at a NASA research facility on Friday resulted from a false alarm, a misunderstood message sent during a test of the facility's automated emergency notification system, authorities said.

"There was not a shooting," said Lori Rachul, a NASA Glenn Research Center spokeswoman, adding that an employee thought there was.

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